I think many people plan to use Felix as both a background service and to support gui applications. (I do!) Having a common felix component that can be visualized from a gui application that allows the user to manage the application's plugins (aka bundles) is certainly desirable.
Look how well it works for eclipse! cheers, John On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 08:53 -0500, Richard S. Hall wrote: > Hello everyone, > > For Oscar I had some simple GUI shell bundles (Shell GUI and Shell > Plugin) that could be used as an alternative to the text shell. There is > no doubt that the GUI shell was super simplistic (just like the text > shell for that matter), but some people liked it. :-) > > I was wondering whether or not people think that these bundles should be > brought into Felix as subprojects or not? Even though they are simple, > they could serve as starting points for people interested in improving > them. I think it seems reasonable. What's the general consensus? > > -> richard >
